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10 best books like Mahabharata (C. Rajagopalachari): The Ring of the Nibelung, The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, Ramayana, The Recognition of Śakuntalā, Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems, The Rig Veda, The Book of Job, بوستان سعدی, Panchatantra

The Ring of the Nibelung
AuthorRichard Wagner
ISBN0393008673
Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate...
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
AuthorR.K. Narayan
ISBN0143039679
The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age,...
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
AuthorXun Lu
ISBN0824813170
This collection of short stories by Lu Xun, commonly considered one of the greatest writers in 20th-century China and often referred to as the father of modern Chinese literature, includes the celebrated short story, "A Madman's Diary". This short story is considered to be one of the first and most...
Ramayana
AuthorVālmīki
ISBN0520227034
El Ramayana es un libro de la India antigua. Se cree que sus orígenes se remontan al siglo IV a.C. ya que forma parte de los smíriti hindúes (textos no aportados directamente por Dios, sino transmitidos por la tradición). El Ramayana es una de las obras literarias más importantes de la India, este...
The Recognition of Śakuntalā
AuthorKālidāsa
Abhijñānashākuntala = Abhignana sakuntalam = Shakuntala: A sanskrit drama by kalidas, Kālidāsa
Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम् – Abhijñānashākuntala, Shakuntala, also known as The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala,...
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems
AuthorLi Bai
ISBN0140442723
Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and...
The Rig Veda
AuthorWendy Doniger
ISBN0140449892
The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda is a collection of over 1000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it provides a unique insight into early Indian mythology,...
The Book of Job
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0060969598
The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight.

Now, The Book of Job has been rendered into English by the eminent translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell, whose versions of Rilke, Israeli...
بوستان سعدی
AuthorSaadi
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz, Saadi
Bustan ("Būstān") is a book of poetry by the Persian poet Saadi, completed in 1257. Saadi's first work, and its title means "the orchard". The book contains the fruits of Saadi's long experience and his judgements upon life, and is illustrated...
Panchatantra
AuthorVishnu Sharma
ISBN8171670652
Panchatantra, is perhaps the oldest collection of Indian Fables still surviving. It is written around 200BC by the great Hindu Scholar Pandit Vishnu Sharma. Panchatantra means "the five books". It is a "Nitishastra" which means book of wise conduct in life. The book is written in the form of simple...
Speaking of Siva
AuthorA.K. Ramanujan
ISBN0140442707
Speaking of Siva is a selection of vacanas or free-verse sayings from the Virasaiva religious movement, dedicated to Siva as the supreme god. Written by four major saints, the greatest exponents of this poetic form, between the tenth and twelfth centuries, they are passionate lyrical expressions...
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
AuthorChikamatsu Monzaemon
ISBN0231111010
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuki actors. Chikamatsu is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition of four of his most important plays...
Jin Ping Mei
AuthorLanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
ISBN1596544643
The fullest translation of Jin Ping Mei available in English. This edition was derived from the Egerton translation, minus the Latin, with a few euphemisms thrown in, but is considerably more complete than the Olympia Press version most Westerners are familiar with. Given the fine academic tradition...
The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath (The Three Kingdoms, 1 of 3)
AuthorLuo Guanzhong
ISBN0804843937
This exciting new translation will appeal to modern readers who find the twists and turns of Game of Thrones so compelling.

The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty,...
The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
AuthorKrishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
ISBN0226568229
R.K. Narayan’s abridged, prose version of India’s national epic, The Mahabharata, is concise, fast paced, well written, and – unfortunately – passionless. Narayan has excised nearly everything not directly related to the Pandavas (Yudhistira, Bhima, Arjuna, and Nakula and Sahadeva)...
Canti
AuthorGiacomo Leopardi
ISBN0374235031
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011

Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways....
Diwan Al Hallaj
AuthorMansur al-Hallaj
ISBN9799373034
Mansur al-Hallaj, died 0919, was born near Shiraz on 0858, and tortured and executed in Baghdad for declaring: "I am the Truth (An-al Haq)." Much has been written about his famous (and infamous) statement, but few of his powerful, often mysteries and always deeply conscious and spiritual poems in Arabic...
A Sister to Scheherazade
AuthorAssia Djebar
ISBN0435086227
Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals.

Isma - older, vibrant, passionate, emancipated - is in stark contrast to the passive, cloistered Hajila. In alternating chapters, Isma tells her own story in the first person, and then Hajila's in the second person. She...
Ghazals of Ghalib
AuthorMirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
ISBN0942208064
GHALIB WAS AN OUTSTANDING poet in both Persian and Urdu, though his family may have come from Afghanistan. His father and uncle both led mercenary soldiers in the service of one rajah or another in Northern India. Unfortunately for Ghalib, they both died when he was young, and he had to find a way to support...
The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses
AuthorChakravarthi V. Narasimhan
ISBN0231110553
"Shorn of anger and jealousy, and purged of every sin, the heroes met with each other. All of them were happy of heart."

A beautiful text just as rife with the deeds of noble men and the expectations placed upon them as any other epic. Incredible that it manages to retain such sublime finesse and...
Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love and Wisdom
AuthorKrishna Dharma
ISBN1887089063
The Ramayana (Journey of Rama) is possibly the world's oldest literature. Cherished throughout India and much of Asia for centuries, it has been faithfully preserved and passed on through poems, folk tales, music, dance, drama, sculpture, painting, even film and graphic novels. This story and its...
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India
AuthorJonah Blank
ISBN0802137334
The three-thousand-year-old epic Ramayana chronicles Lord Rama's physical voyage from one end of the Indian subcontinent to the other and his spiritual voyage from Man to God. In Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, anthropologist and journalist Jonah Blank gives a new perspective to this Hindu classic...
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